52 Books In 52 Weeks 2012 Board Reading Challenge

**scs** · 06-28-2012, 05:48 PM

1. Children of the Sky, Vernor Vinge.
2. Shades of Grey, Jasper Fforde.
3. Night Watch, Sergei Lukyanenko.
4. Day Watch, Sergei Lukyanenko.
5. Twilight Watch, Sergei Lukyanenko.
6. Last Watch, Sergei Lukyanenko.
7. A Path To Coldness of Heart, Glen Cook.
8. The Night Circus, Erin Morgenstern.
9. The Eyre Affair, Jasper Fforde.
10. Lost In A Good Book, Jasper Fforde.
11. Echo: The Complete Edition, Terry Moore.
12. The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner, James Hogg.
13. American Gods: 10th Anniversary Edition, Neil Gaiman.
14. A Deepness in the Sky, Vernor Vinge.
15. 1491, Charles Mann.
16. Just After Sunset, Stephen King.
17. The Night Eternal, Chuck Hogan and Guillermo Del Toro.
18. Coraline, Neil Gaiman.
19. The Duel, Joseph Conrad.
20. Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austin.
21. Frankenstein, Mary Shelley.
22. Full Dark, No Stars, Stephen King.
23. Pope Joan: A Novel, Donna Woolfolk Jones.
24. Bind, Torture, Kill, Roy Wenzl, Tim Potter, Hurst Laviana.
25. The Colorado Kid, Stephen King.
26. The Closing of the Western Mind: The Rise of Faith and the Fall of Reason, Charles Freeman.
27. After the Prophet, Lesley Hazleton.
28. The Passage of Power, Robert A. Caro.
29. The Path to Power, Robert A. Caro. Volume one of Caro's biography of Johnson. Yes, after reading volume four I decided there were too many details that had gotten hazy and started in rereading the whole thing. As I write this, I'm about 1/3 of the way through volume 2. The four volumes are about 3,000 pages, which will radically skew my books-read-per-month numbers. Then again, Charlie Stroess' new Laundry book is supposed to ship next week, so I'll probably take a break from Johnson when it arrives.

**Thudpucker** · 06-29-2012, 08:00 AM

01 - Douglas Clegg - Neverland
02 - Tom Holt - In Your Dreams
03 - Tom Holt - Earth, Air, Fire and Custard
04 - C. Dulaney - Roads Less Traveled: The Plan
05 - Charlie Higson - The Enemy
06 - Philip Reeve - Fever Crumb
07 - Eric Brown - Necropath
08 - Eric Brown - Xenopath
09 - Elmore Leonard - Pronto
10 - Elmore Leonard - Riding The Rap
11 - Elmore Leonard - Raylan
12 - Bernard Cornwell - Death Of Kings
13 - Joe Haldeman - The Coming
14 - John Varley - Red Thunder
15 - Eric Brown - Cosmopath
16 - Travis Adkins - Twilight of the Dead
17 - Timothy W. Long - Beyond the Barriers
18 - Jonathan Maberry - Rot and Ruin
19 - John Scalzi - Agent to the Stars
20 - Carl Hiaasen - Star Island
21 - Colin Bateman - Mystery Man
22 - Colin Bateman - Day of the Jack Russell
23 - Orson Scott Card - Seventh Son
24 - Lois McMaster Bujold - The Curse of Chalion
25 - Jonathan Carroll - The Ghost In Love
26 - Daryl Gregory - Raising Stony Mayhall
27 - John Connolly - The Gates
28 - Ted Kosmatka - The Games
29 - Colin Bateman - Dr. Yes
30 - Ilsa Bick - Ashes
31 - John Ajvide Lindqvist - Handling the Undead
32 - Mike Carey - The Devil You Know
33 - Mike Carey - Vicious Circle
34 - Scott Westerfeld - Leviathan
35 - Scott Westerfeld - Behemoth
36 - Scott Westerfeld - Goliath
37 - Susan Beth Pfeffer - The Dead and the Gone
38 - Susan Beth Pfeffer - This World We Live In
39 - Terry Pratchett - Snuff
40 - Stephen King - 11/22/63
41 - Mike Carey - Dead Men's Boots
42 - Robert C. O'Brien - Z For Zachariah
43 - Paolo Bacigalupi - The Drowned Cities
44 - Paolo Bacigalupi - The Windup Girl
45 - Mike Carey - Thicker Than Water

The series has gotten progressively darker with each book. Still excellent though.

**Andreas** · 06-29-2012, 09:32 AM

In the U.S.A., to celebrate the release of the Ready Player One trade paperback, author Ernest Cline is holding a contest inspired by the plot of his novel. He has hidden an "Easter egg" in the text of both the hardcover and paperback editions of Ready Player One.

http://www.ernestcline.com/blog/2012...-secret-gates/

If readers can find this hidden clue, it will lead them to the first of three increasingly difficult video game challenges. The first video game challenge is an Atari 2600 game that contains another Easter Egg that will lead you to the Second Challenge. Completing the Second Challenge will lead you to the Third and Final Challenge.

The first person to complete all three of these challenges will win the grand prize, a 1981 DeLorean automobile, complete with a Flux Capacitor! I’ll be driving this DeLorean across the country on my book tour this June, so contestants will have a chance to see the grand prize in person at each of my book signings.

**Tom G.** · 06-29-2012, 09:52 AM

Books

1. Fletch's Moxie - Gregory McDonald
2.Just My Type: A Book About Fonts - Simon Garfield
3. Dune Messiah - Frank Herbert
4. Fletch And The Man Who - Gregory McDonald
5. The Science Fiction Hall Of Fame Vol. 1 - Edited By Robert Silverberg
6. The Man In The High Castle - Philip K. Dick
7. Kafka On The Shore - Haruki Murakami
8. An American Spy - Olen Steinhauer
9. Ubik - Phillip K. Dick
10. The Demolished Man - Alfred Bester
11. Alpha - Greg Rucka
12. Red, White and Blood - Christopher Farnsworth
13. The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch - Philip K. Dick
14. 2001 A Space Odyssey - Arthur C. Clarke
15. Men of Tomorrow: Geeks, Gangsters, and the Birth of the Comic Book
- Gerard Jones
16. 1984 - George Orwell

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**Kingsmythe** · 06-29-2012, 02:33 PM

You've got some great taste there, Tom. I loved the Fletch books, and Clarke, Herbert, and Philip K Dick too? Good stuff.

Originally Posted by Tom G.

Books

1. Fletch's Moxie - Gregory McDonald
2.Just My Type: A Book About Fonts - Simon Garfield
3. Dune Messiah - Frank Herbert
4. Fletch And The Man Who - Gregory McDonald
5. The Science Fiction Hall Of Fame Vol. 1 - Edited By Robert Silverberg
6. The Man In The High Castle - Philip K. Dick
7. Kafka On The Shore - Haruki Murakami
8. An American Spy - Olen Steinhauer
9. Ubik - Phillip K. Dick
10. The Demolished Man - Alfred Bester
11. Alpha - Greg Rucka
12. Red, White and Blood - Christopher Farnsworth
13. The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch - Philip K. Dick
14. 2001 A Space Odyssey - Arthur C. Clarke
15. Men of Tomorrow: Geeks, Gangsters, and the Birth of the Comic Book
- Gerard Jones
16. 1984 - George Orwell

Comics/Graphic Novels

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**Tom G.** · 06-29-2012, 03:04 PM

Originally Posted by Kingsmythe

You've got some great taste there, Tom. I loved the Fletch books, and Clarke, Herbert, and Philip K Dick too? Good stuff.

Thanks! I've been on a classic sci-fi binge lately. Been using this list as guide and trying to read as many of the top 100 as I can.

**Kurt Russell Crowe** · 06-29-2012, 03:11 PM

Originally Posted by Andreas

In the U.S.A., to celebrate the release of the Ready Player One trade paperback, author Ernest Cline is holding a contest inspired by the plot of his novel. He has hidden an "Easter egg" in the text of both the hardcover and paperback editions of Ready Player One.

http://www.ernestcline.com/blog/2012...-secret-gates/

heheh, that's pretty neat. Enjoyed the book, but not enough to re read looking for it.

**Thudpucker** · 06-29-2012, 06:41 PM

Originally Posted by Tom G.

Thanks! I've been on a classic sci-fi binge lately. Been using this list as guide and trying to read as many of the top 100 as I can.

Great list!

... I've read all but 1 of them.

**Tom G.** · 06-30-2012, 11:57 AM

Books

1. Fletch's Moxie - Gregory McDonald
2.Just My Type: A Book About Fonts - Simon Garfield
3. Dune Messiah - Frank Herbert
4. Fletch And The Man Who - Gregory McDonald
5. The Science Fiction Hall Of Fame Vol. 1 - Edited By Robert Silverberg
6. The Man In The High Castle - Philip K. Dick
7. Kafka On The Shore - Haruki Murakami
8. An American Spy - Olen Steinhauer
9. Ubik - Phillip K. Dick
10. The Demolished Man - Alfred Bester
11. Alpha - Greg Rucka
12. Red, White and Blood - Christopher Farnsworth
13. The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch - Philip K. Dick
14. 2001 A Space Odyssey - Arthur C. Clarke
15. Men of Tomorrow: Geeks, Gangsters, and the Birth of the Comic Book
- Gerard Jones
16. 1984 - George Orwell
17. God Save The Child - Robert B. Parker

It was entertaining and I like the main character, Spencer, but parts of it are horribly dated now. Plus, Parker has this irritating habit of having to describe , in detail, what everyone is wearing every time someone shows up or re-enters the story, and since it's the seventies it's all laughably garish and polyester. I'm told the series gets better as it progresses, so I'll probably stick with it. It helps that these are real light, quick reads.

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**Tom G.** · 06-30-2012, 11:58 AM

Originally Posted by Thudpucker

Great list!

... I've read all but 1 of them.

That's impressive.

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